Resumo de Waterborne Diseases In India

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here.Water borne diseases in India
Pure Water is not available in all cities in India. Many
opt for mineral water, as the ground water is contaminated
or over drawn. Most pain giving instance has taken place in
Kerala recently where PEPSI has been charged for over
withdrawal of drinking ground water. People and NGO?s have
raised slogans that ?we want water for drinking and not
COCA-COLA or PEPSI?. Kerala has strong workfare supported
by communist activities. So any company going against them
will face severe consequences. These companies have created
water borne diseases to the surrounding people. Medhe
Phatkar is a leading woman NGO who fights tooth nail to
eradicate water pollution in any part of India. She also
fights now in Trivandrum against COCA-COLA plant in
Perimatty, Kerala. In places like Cuddalore, Nagapattinam,
Pondy the ground water has been affected by tsunami. Hence
people in that area have been affected by cholera,
dysentery and abdominal pain says Dr. Asha, a social
service lady from a noted NGO set up. As many had walked on
tsunami affected wet areas with barefoot they have been
infected by leptospirosis says a leading nursing home
administrator in Chennai and Nagapattinam. The waves have
thrashed and left behind many dead bodies along the wet sea
shore. The decayed bodies have created multifarious
bacteria affecting skin, blood and lungs. Lack of proper
health education and seriousness in walking over
contaminated water is one amongst the many reasons sys a
doctor from M.K. nursing home in Tondiarpet, Chennai, and
TamilNadu. This matter was discussed in a medical camp
organized by Indian medical association recently in
Chennai.
Local health authorities in various polluted areas spray
phenyl, bleaching powder and DDT to kill the contagious
diseases, spreading elements. Virus fever and cholera are
common in hutments and residents along the open gutters.
North Chennai is an industrial area and hence environment
negligence is high. So there is a frequent visit of
patients suffering from asthmatic bronchitis, sinusitis,
respiratory problems, TB and dengue in the private clinics
and public health center.
As hotels charge heavily the working class depends much on
way side petty tea shops and dirty restaurants with least
amenities. Negligence in hygienic atmosphere causes the
eatables covered with bacteria. The vehicle emits smoke and
these collect in the water used by the restaurants. The
waste eatables are strewn along the streets of
Tiruvottriyur, a thickly populated industrial area in North
Chennai where one can see barefooted workmen, women and
children squatting on it uncared. So these situations cause
multiple of diseases and the doctors in that area had to
use very strong antibiotics to save them says a leading
doctor. Spitting on streets, cloth washing, bathing and
defecating are common scenes in Dharavi, the most polluted
area in Mumbai. To avoid the congestion, the Mumbai
officials have created a Greater Mumbai and many have been
made to occupy in those remote areas. Industrial wastes,
domestic wastes, plastics wastes are seen in the streets of
Kolkata along Hoogly River so also along Ganges, a sacred
river for Hindus. Ashes of all dead bodies are mixed with
Ganges as the holy scripts of Hindus proclaim that a person
can reach the abode of heaven if it is done so. It clearly
indicates the extent of pollution in that river. So water
borne diseases can be seen in the areas like Kasi, Gaya and
Nagpur. Sentimental views of the Hindus too cause
environmental pollution and water borne contagious virus
attacks. If the authorities take stringent actions against
the hut dwellers and economically backward people who
create a mass with water allowing it to be contaminated,
then some solution can be achieved. But the politicians
depend upon the votes of thesee downtrodden citizens as the
educated and modern society never go to polling booth to
vote. So the authorities hesitate to clear the slums as the
politicians immediately strike them with a whip of power.
Water scattered, stagnated allows the areas like Mumbai
slums, Orissa factory zones, north Chennai, old Delhi,
Howrah slums of Kolkata, textile zones of Tirrupur,
TamilNadu and many other neglected industrial quarters.
Acquaguard manufacturers like Hindustan Lever, Eureka
Forbes try to teach the Indian population, the seriousness
of water borne diseases through advertisements in
magazines, daily newspapers, and TV and film theaters. The
manufacturers of mineral waters too have been caught red
handed by health authorities as they sold water obtained
from tap without removing the bacteria. It happened in
Cuddalore, Coimbatore and some rural areas. Date of packing
was not found on it and they were spurious. But the
ignorant people buy it at a price of Re1 for one sachet and
quench their thirst ignoring the fate they will face with
water borne diseases.
Most of the cases registered for water pollution is
pharmaceutical industries in India say a press report. The
environmental episode in SIPCOT Cuddalore, TamilNadu was
mainly due to pharmaceutical industries there.
Another recent incident of waste pollution was due to
leather units in Pammal, a place near Chennai. Untreated
water from these tanneries created havoc in streets. This
alarming situation was raised with hue and cry by some
social service group along with Exnora, an organization
protecting environment.

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